Monday, November 11, 2019

One-Pot Cheesy Italian Pasta and Chicken (with VIDEO)

One-Pot Cheese Italian Pasta and Chicken is a rich and savory dish bursting with your favorite flavors! This simple recipe features a creamy sun-dried tomato sauce that is cooked right into the pasta in this amazing one-pot dish. Toss it all in a pot and let it cook. It's so easy that it just about cooks itself. Now that's my kind of meal!!!

We love one-pot meals. I mean delicious dinner and easy clean up. How can you beat that?

That is exactly why we have an entire chapter dedicated to one-pot wonders in our new cookbook The Simple Kitchen!!!

Some of my new favorite new one-pot recipes are in there are you are going to love them!!!

As you all know I am very passionate about simple cooking and I make a lot of one-pot recipes, but the "One Pot Wonders" are truly my favorite.

You just toss the items in the pot, turn the stove on and almost like magic the entire pot turns into one enchanting dinner.

I love that the pasta cooks right in the pot and absorbs all of the flavors from the ingredients you add.

I created this new recipe especially for an event Chad and I presented at last year and we decided that we really wanted to take it to the next level so Chad and I also created a video for you.

Let me know how you are liking the videos. They are a lot of fun and we are excited to keep doing them.

Now, let me tell you... This is TRULY my favorite One-Pot ever posted on our site! {Leave room for another one that is in the cookbook that would give this recipe a run for it's money.}

The addition of chicken and herbs and spices come together with the chicken stock and chardonnay to create an amazing flavor combination.

The fresh spinach is cooked in the pot and more it stirred in at the end to give you cooked and wilted spinach. It is truly the perfect American-Italian dinner!

Did you listen to the video? I suggest you leave the music on, it is such a happy song it will make you want to jump up and go make the pasta.

One-Pot Cheese Italian Pasta is a rich and savory dish bursting with your favorite flavors! This simple recipe features a creamy sun-dried tomato sauce that is cooked right into the pasta in this amazing one-pot dish.

Toss it all in a pot and let it cook. It's so easy that it just about cooks itself. Now that's my kind of meal!!!

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Helpful Tips to make One-Pot Cheesy Italian Pasta and Chicken:

This dish is just spicy enough to make your tongue tingle. For a very mild sauce, reduce the red pepper flakes to 1/2 teaspoon.

I know some people are sensitive to alcohol. The wine adds a fabulous rich buttery flavor and a bright citrusiness to the pasta. If you can use the chardonnay, I highly recommend it. However, you can substitute with chicken stock, white grape juice, or lemon water (1/2 cup fresh lemon juice and 1/2 cup water).

What you will need to make One-Pot Cheesy Italian Pasta and Chicken:

4 Quart Braising Pan - this is my favorite for my one pot wonders. The spaghetti fits inside so you can put the lid on.

Tongs - I love this set of 3. I use every pair of them. They are so handy and grip amazingly well!

Check out more of our favorite one-pot wonder recipes:

Watch the video to see how easy One-Pot Italian Pasta and Chicken is to make!!!

Yield: 6Author: Donna Elick

One-Pot Cheesy Italian Pasta and Chicken

One-Pot Cheese Italian Pasta and Chicken is a rich and savory dish bursting with your favorite flavors! This simple recipe features a creamy sun-dried tomato sauce that is cooked right into the pasta in this amazing one-pot dish. Toss it all in a pot and let it cook. It's so easy that it just about cooks itself. Now that's my kind of meal!!!

Instructions

Combine 1/2 of the spinach with the tomatoes, onion, chicken, garlic, linguine, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper and crushed red pepper in a 5-quart Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Pour chicken stock and wine over top. Cover and bring to a boil.

Cook 7-9 minutes until pasta is al dente (with a bite to it). Toss pasta with tongs occasionally to keep the pasta from sticking to the bottom of the pot. You will still have some liquid in the pan when the pasta is done cooking. This is going to make the base for our delicious cheese sauce.

Turn off the heat and add the cheese to the pasta. Toss pasta with tongs until the cheese melts into the pasta. Toss in remaining spinach.

DONNA'S NOTES

This dish is just spicy enough to make your tongue tingle. For a very mild sauce, reduce the red pepper flakes to 1/2 teaspoon.

I know some people are sensitive to alcohol. The wine adds a fabulous rich buttery flavor and a bright citrusiness to the pasta. If you can use the chardonnay, I highly recommend it. However, you can substitute with chicken stock, white grape juice, or lemon water (1/2 cup fresh lemon juice and 1/2 cup water).

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I know some people are sensitive to alcohol. The wine adds a fabulous rich buttery flavor and a bright citrusiness to the pasta. If you can use the chardonnay, I highly recommend it. However, you can substitute with chicken stock, white grape juice, or lemon water (1/2 cup fresh lemon juice and 1/2 cup water).

It was unanimous..." Wine and Parmesan cheese (in those proportions) DON'T MIX"! And the aftertaste...had quite the bite! We all had to brush our teeth immediately,LOL! oh, and one last thing,the kitchen smelled like someone just got sick!

You can purchase Dealcholized wine. It is so much better than cooking wine and much less salty. "Fre" makes a good alcohol removed wine, both red and white. You can purchase it at Wegmans. Many grocery stores now carry it.

Donna, was one of the best tasting and efficient recipes I've ever made. We are old and have dietary issues. Plus, I'm a foodie and I can't wait to try this recipe again with the twists below. I think this recipe is perfection! Thank you! everyone for letting me sing the praises:

We used boneless, skinless thighs--I do not like white meat. I think that you might find boneless, skinless, white meat in prepared in 1/2" pieces so you have no prep--I was pleased that our grocery store had boneless, skinless dark meat but we still had to carve the chicken into the pieces.We should have bought the pre-chopped onions that are available in produce. It would have saved a short bit of time. We used one yellow onion as the recipe specified.

I used garlic from a jar, which saved prep time. So sue me....it saved time.

That was all the prep work that it took and it was very quick (like 10 minutes).

My mother doesn't like heat, so I only added a dash of the red pepper flakes. This was not my preference, because I like things spicier. But a dash did give it a nice little kick.

The jar of sun dried tomatoes we purchased, weren't cut. They were large tomatoes. I'd suggest cutting these in half before you put them in the pot.

Next time I make this I'd like to try it with three Italian cheeses sprinkled over the top of each plate. The parmesan that was in the dish was fabulous. But I love cheese. I'd like to see what those other flavors would do. I might even try it with a little mushroom.

But it is perfect as it it.

This is a perfect recipe. It took us at most 30 minutes from prep to finish. You only have one dish to clean, the pot that you dump everything and cook in, and a few prep utensil. I cannot wait to make this again! One of the best and easiest recipes I've ever made.

Mark Gaulding, I agree mincing garlic is time consuming, so I use a garlic press. I love the fresh garlic, jarred garlic isn't fresh. And I never can tell in the finished dish the difference between minced and crushed.

Absolutely gorgeous recipe. Made it tonight. I had no parmesan so i used mature white cheddar, I'm not a fan of sundried tomatoes so I put in fresh cherry tomatoes. And bacon just because it's bacon. Kids loved it.

We don't like sun dried tomatoes either and the store that would have great fresh tomatoes 30 min away and would like to keep ingredients on hand to make quickly. Couldn't I use a large drained can of diced tomatoes. By the way loved the white grape juice substitute.

I did crock pot ~ it worked but I cooked on slow but for only 4-6 hrs long...and I did the cheese at the end, several times before serving good and cheesey(added Asiago cheese also) Plus I did a Chili version with white bean and chicken with Macaroni noodles (chili mac) delish. Thanks for the goodies...

You can even do a version of this adding (on top of this original recipe EXCEPT minus the chicken.....) a bottle of clam juice, one cup of white wine and then put in some uncooked jumbo shrimp and 1 cup of fat free Half & Half and some lemon juice (to make it even creamier) the last 10 mins of cooking time..Oh, and add some nice pecorino Romano cheese on top of it all and gently fold that in to help accommodate for all the extra liquid!

Wow - I made this tonight for dinner and it was awesome. Everyone in my family loved it and they are food snobs. I didn't tell them it was all cooked in one pot until afterwards. The flavors were great! I am so glad I found this site. I saw the video on Facebook yesterday.

Hi keri i made it for my little girl and myself at the weekend. Shes allergic to wheat soya and dairy. I substituted everything for free from things. Im uk based and i used violife parmesan. I also substituted the wine for water. At the cheese adding stage there was not much liquid left just enough to create steam to wilt the spinach and melt the cheese. Hope this helps

I made this dish omg absolutely delicious. The only problem I had and this me I couldn't get the linguini in the pot as easy as you did. The noodles were too long is there something you did different? But eating it as we speak. Great dish.

I made this tonight, and it was delicious. I think the only thing I might change is to cook the chicken separately, and add it with all the spinach at the very end. I didn't like the spinach that cooked with the pot. Stirring it in at the end wilts it perfectly. Thank you for this recipe! I can see it becoming a stand by here.

Really great, but was really glad I sauteed the onion until translucent before adding the other ingredients and chicken broth. Otherwise I don't think it would have passed the picky palates of my kids, they both refuse to eat onions with any kind of crunch/bite left to them.

Made this tonight for dinner. It turned out very sour, I know it came from the tomatoes. The texture was beautiful, I will make it again but with just about 1 or 2oz of the sun dried tomatoes. Not sure how to fix the left overs.

I had no wine, spinach, chicken or sun dried tomatoes, so I used pork scalloppini strips and a 14 oz. can of Italian diced tomatoe, 2 cups of bell pepper strips and lemon water. Turned out ery tasty. Will try the original recipe once I get all the required ingredients for it.

Delicious and easy! The people concerned about the white wine I get that, but she was right it hads incredible flavor and richness. Really love this recipe. It was so easy. I also like someone who asked above just used a large steel pot and had no issues. Thank you for really good easy recipe!

I had no red pepper or tomatoes and also used a steel pot like someone mentioned above. I saw some people not liking the white wine, but I think she is right I had never cooked with white wine but did tonight and it came out delicious. I think it's an incredibly easy recipe and not very time consuming. Thank you for the great recipe!

I made this tonight and it was (by no fault of the recipe's) a fiasco! My new onion from the store was rotten inside, then my new jar of crushed red pepper didn't have the sprinkle lid on tight enough so I dumped about 1/2 cup of red pepper in the dish. I did my best to scoop it out, but I had already lightly browned my chicken and added all of the other spices, so it was quite hot for my fingertips at that point. I tried to dilute the dish by adding 2 28oz cans of crushed tomatoes, but it was still WAY too spicy for my kids. My husband loved it though! Spicy is right up his alley. :)

I will definitely make this again! Other than my ridiculous amount of red pepper and the addition of the tomato sauce, I made the recipe as written. Beautiful and tasty!

This is awesome! People shouldn't be afraid of the cost of the sundried tomatoes--they are great in here, and the recipe is big--I had two helpings and saved six more. I wouldn't be afraid to increase the chicken (why did I measure it, why was I so silly?) This will be in my favorites file! And good for when I have a bunch around! Thank you!

Wonderful recipe, thank you!! I increased the chilli flakes as my husband and I love chilli, I increased the parmesan as everyone knows you can never have too much cheese! Next time I will reduce the amount of salt. This will become a real go to for us from now on. Wonderful for leftovers for lunch for the rest of the week too!!! WINNING!!!!! :-D

I have made this once so far-delicious!! A little spicey tho. I bought some frozen broccoli and peppers today and was wondering how that would taste in this?? Also, when/how do I add since frozen?? Suggestions??

This recipe was amazing. Has anyone substituted the spinach with broccoli? I was going to make it again and do that. Also has anyone substituted the sun-dried tomatoes with sun-dried tomatoe PESTO? I did and it was great! I thank you for giving a great recipe where the possibilities are endless!

Made this tonight with my favorite chardonnay and it was to die for!! The entire family loved it! Will definitely be making this one again! LOVED the one pot method and it was perfectly done! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!!!

I just made this dish. Yummy! It was fantastic. I panicked a little when it didn't appear there was enough liquid to boil the pasta. I added a little bit more chicken stock but it probably wasn't necessary. I also reduced the red pepper to approximately 1/2 teaspoon and would consider 1/4 teaspoon the next time. I guess I am a spice wimp! Thank you for this easy and really good dish!

I made one batch exactly to the publish recipe. Turned out great but the noodles tasted much too strongly of the chicken stock for my tastes. Second batch I cut the chicken stock in half and used half vegetable stock. Worked perfectly.

LOVE this dish....super easy and delicious!!! the only changes I made: I added mozzarella in lieu of parmesan, some capers and extra red pepper flakes. Just YUMMY! THANK YOU for posting, am going to try OTHER one pot dishes too!

Made this yesterday, my takeaway: 1) Dice the garlic very small, I sliced it like the recipe said and it was too large to fully cook, made the entire pot sharp with garlic (which is okay, but not for everyone). 2) I used salt-free Herb-Ox bullion instead of stock to keep the sodium level down and only added 1 tsp or regular salt. 3) I would suggest using a large Teflon skillet instead of the stock pot, it was very cumbersome to mix, even with the linguine broken in half. 4) The linquine was very al dente, I was unwilling to test a noddle early because I wasn't sure the chicken was fully cooked. 5) It needs more spinach, 8 ounces isn't enough, and I too would add it all at the end. 5) Next time I will finely mince the garlic, omit the chicken, and throw in some shrimp at the end. The chicken just kind of complicated things, shrimp would be so easy. Other than that, loved it (and I did use the wine ... might have needed a couple more minutes at a boil for the alcohol to burn off).

Me again, I was the long January 16th post. I used the sun dried tomatoes in oil and drained the oil off. It might be nice to mention in the recipe to have a crusty loaf of bread on hand when you make this, to dip in the oil from the tomatoes. I didn't have bread on hand and had no use for the oil so I discarded it, seemed like such a shame.

My teenage son LOVES this recipe and wants me to make it this spring (baseball season) so he can take it for lunch. The problem is he doesn't like chicken. He just eats the pasta and veggies. I'm looking for a protein alternative and how I would add it. Tofu maybe? I have zero experience cooking with that or shrimp (blehck--not a shrimp lover myself). Suggestions?

I am so happy that he loves this recipe. How about trying some smoked sausage? Costco carries an all natural chicken sausage that I absolutely love. You can slice it up and add it when the chicken is called for. You can also stir in any precooked protein at the end (sliced steak, meatballs, shredded pork, sausage, bacon, etc). Enjoy and I hope he loves it!

Made this dish last night. Used everything as in the recipe. Had to break the pasta in half to get in the pot, and had to increase the boiling time to 12 minutes according to my pasta directions. The pasta was still a little too "al dente," but the chicken was cooked through, although a little tough. It was good, but a little too spicy for my taste. Next time I will cut the crushed red pepper flakes by at least half and probably brown the chicken before cooking it all together. Was a good dinner with lots of flavor. I'm thinking leftovers will be even better.

I made this tonight and it was delicious. I highly recommend using the wine, it gave it such a great flavor! I shared this on FB for my Friends and Family to try. I can't wait to try another one pot recipe. Thanks & Take care. ♡

I apologize ahead of time, if this comment has already been mentioned. I don't care for chicken in my pasta. Could I substitute an Italian sausage with a red wine instead of white? Or maybe a dark balsamic vinegar?

I made this about two weeks ago. I was lucky to have any left to serve as I kept taste testing it to make sure the noodles were just so etc. It is one of the most flavorful taste explosions I have ever experienced and it's so simple to make. I'm so thrilled to find this recipe. Just out of curiosity, would this work with spaghetti squash??

Made this tonight and loved it. Did sauté the chicken, onions and spices before adding the remaining ingredients as well as added the juice and zest of a half a lemon and a handful of fresh chopped parsley at the end.

I was skeptical about this whole thing working as simply as it states. I was even worried when I put it all in the dutch oven. But seriously - it couldn't have been easier and more delicious!! I am hooked. The whole family loved it! Thanks for the easy, tasty dinner!

I have made this dish twice and it is fantastic; however, there is absolutely no fat in the recipe and the second time, the chicken and spinach were on the bottom of the pot and they burned, but we got to it in time enough to change pans and save the dish for the most part. Next time, I think I am going to saute my chicken in a bit of butter/olive oil and then add the remainder of the ingredients with a little extra chicken stock and white wine. I will let you all know how it turned out. Very very delicious though. Also as a tip, I used my handy-dandy microplane to "grate" the garlic in and sliced my onions (last time I used shallot) very very thin. Great recipe, just not quite enough liquid.

My second time making this & it's absolutely delicious! I love how easily you can customize it to whatever veg I have in hand & it's still a WINNER! This recipe is permanently in my rotation. Thanks so much!

We absolutely love this recipe!! I also loved the video and have to know what the name of that song is!!!??? I want to play it for my guests while dining on the best cheesy pasta and chicken!!! Thanks!!!

Made this for dinner tonight. I sautéed the onions and garlic in butter, then deglazed the pan with the wine. It was absolutely delicious! My hubby doesn't typically care for food cooked in wine, and isn't a fan of tomatoes, but he had 2 dishes of it, and commented numerous times how good it was.